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Vote by Mail Applications Sent to All Registered Voters in Harris County Age 65 and Up

Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins has sent vote by mail applications to 376,840 registered voters who are 65 years of age and older. Those voters should expect to start receiving the applications in their mailboxes this week. To receive a mail ballot for the July 14 Primary Runoff Elections, voters must complete their applications and return them promptly by July 2 (received, not postmarked).

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Willow Smith speaks out about dad Will's Oscars slap incident

Willow Smith says she was not fazed by the media firestorm that broke out after her father, Will Smith, slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, because she sees her "whole family as being human."

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Fort Bend County Judge KP George to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with Tree Planting and Food Distribution

Partners with Lucille’s 1913 and the city of Kendleton for Day of Service

On Monday, January 16, 2023, Fort Bend County Judge KP George, Chef Chris Williams’ Lucille’s 1913 Foundation, and the city of Kendleton, TX, will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by hosting a Day of Service tree planting and produce distribution from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., at Bates M. Allen Park, 630 Charlie Roberts Ln., in Kendleton, TX 77451.

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Cyntoia Brown Released After 15 Years In Prison For Murder

Cyntoia Brown, who served 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16, has been released from a Nashville prison, Tennessee officials announced.

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Cyntoia Brown Is Granted Clemency After 15 Years in Prison

Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee granted clemency on Monday to Cyntoia Brown, commuting her life sentence for killing a man who had picked her up for sex when she was a teenage trafficking victim. Ms. Brown, 30, will be released to supervised parole on Aug. 7, said Mr. Haslam, who will leave office later this month.

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BET Awards 2023: See who won

The 2023 edition of the BET Awards took place Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

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Chris Froome Bids to End 22-year Wait in 'vicious' Vuelta a Espana

Just days have passed since he sealed a fourth Tour de France victory, but Chris Froome has no intention of putting his feet up.

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Chris Hollins awarded the Democracy Action Hero Award by the Schwarzenegger Institute

The USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, an organization committed to advancing post-partisanship, headed by former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, recently named Houston-area resident, Chris Hollins, as a recipient of the Institute's Democracy Action Hero Award.

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Will Smith and Chris Rock have a history that predates the Oscars slap

Sunday night wasn't the first time Chris Rock had joked about Jada Pinkett Smith, but it may have been his last.

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FAST X | Watch the Big Game Spot

The end of the road begins. Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.

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Midtown Houston Announces Super Bowl Weekend Line-Up Featuring NFL Stars, Free Block Party and Reveal of New Green Space

Families and fans across Houston will have the opportunity to celebrate their passion for football during Midtown Houston’s free Super Bowl Weekend LI Showdown at the new Midtown Park (Main and McGowen) and a three-day SUPER Weekend concert series at Bagby Park (415 Gray St.). Together, the two Midtown Super Bowl celebrations will offer the best in Houston's visual and performing arts, outdoor recreation spaces and culinary scene.

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$3 for a single McDonald’s hash brown? Customers are fed up and pushing back

Corporate America may be bumping up against the limit of its power to keep raising prices as consumers in some markets cry uncle.

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There's a New World's Oldest Woman

How to be the oldest person in the world? Don't drink rum, according to 117-year-old Jamaican Violet-Mosse Brown, recently dubbed the world's oldest human.

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Mayor Sylvester Turner Announces New Houston Poet Laureate, Aris Kian Brown

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Mayor Sylvester Turner is pleased to announce the new Houston Poet Laureate: Aris Kian Brown. Brown is the sixth poet laureate and the youngest to be chosen.

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50 Cent Signs New Deal With Starz Worth $150 Million

Rapper and producer 50 Cent has just landed a 4-year deal with Starz worth up to $150 million. His new deal with the premium cable network will include a three-series commitment through his G-Unit Film and Television company. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, comments, "When I sat down with Chris [Albrecht, Starz CEO] and walked him through my plans for G-Unit Film & Television going forward, he let m

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“You Can’t Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World” by Robert J. Brown

Do unto others. Three words that are a shorthand reminder to be nice and treat people in the manner that you’d want to be treated. Do unto others and make life smoother. Be good, and be of service because, as Robert J. Brown reminds readers, “You Can’t Do Wrong Doing Right.”

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Lezley McSpadden, Michael Brown’s Mother, Earns High School Diploma Alongside College-Bound Daughter Daysa Brown

Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, recently walked across the stage in Missouri to receive her high school diploma.What’s also interesting is that McSpadden earned her diploma alongside her daughter, Daysa Brown, thanks to the local school district’s adult high school education program, which allowed her to attend classes on weekday afternoons.

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Family of Andrew Brown Jr. remembers his life and calls for justice in his death at his funeral

The family of Andrew Brown Jr. gathered at a church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Monday for the funeral of the 42-year-old father and grandfather fatally shot by sheriff's deputies two weeks ago.

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Brown Sugar to Add Exclusive Original Programming

Popular Streaming Service for African Americans to Release New Documentary "Am I Black Enough?" on Feb. 12

Brown Sugar - the popular new subscription-video-on-demand service featuring the biggest collection of the baddest African-American movies of all-time - announced today that it will add exclusive original content beginning this month.

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Nick Gordon, Found Liable in Bobbi Kristina’s Death, Dead of Suspected Overdose

Once Bobbi Kristina Brown’s boyfriend, he was also held liable in her 2015 death in a 2016 civil trial.